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RUBEN LOGANANTHARAJ abl4zb@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE:

Engineering professional with a strong electrical and computer educational background, complemented by

work experience involving programming and electrical design who has proven successful in self-managed

and team-based projects. Effective at combining creative thinking with logical design ideas to develop

solutions to challenging problems. I was born and raised in the United States and have developed excellent

verbal and written skills with a detail-oriented approach for presentations.

OBJECTIVE:

To grow as a software engineer with a progressive company, providing efficient and effective problem

solving means to achieve the common goal. My passion varies from computer hardware design, embedded

systems to software design.

EDUCATION:

Masters of Science in Computer Engineering, May 2009

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

GPA: 3.56

Concentration: System on Chip/Network on Chip/Embedded Systems

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, December 2006

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Concentration: Computer Engineering

RELATED SKILLS:

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:

C++, C, JAVA, HTML, CSS, VERILOG, VHDL, EMBEDDED C, LADDER LOGIC, PLC PROGRAMMING,, ASSEMBLY,

SYSTEM C, PERL, SHELL

FAMILIAR WITH PHP, PERL, JAVASCRIPT

SOFTWARE PACKAGES:

KEIL, MPLAB, MPLAB ICD 3, MPLAB REAL ICE, PIC START PLUS, MATLAB, PSPICE, HSPCIE, MAGIC

VLSI LAYOUT TOOL 7.5, MODELSIM, MICROSOFT VISO, FLASH, MATLAB, ELECTRONICS WORKBENCH, ULTIBOARD,

MULTISIM, IFIX, RSLOGIX 500, MICROSOFT OFFICE

MICROPROCESSORS:

PIC 32, 24, 18, 80C51 FAMILY, PHILLIPS P89C51RD2HXX, TI MSP 430, ATMEL AVR ATMEGA168, X86-16

Work EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer/ Firmware Engineer, Smartfield

Lubbock, Texas. Sept 2009- present

Was the lead on the project team that designed the Gen 3 Base Station, which serves as the

command center that communicates to other Smartfield products in order to irrigate efficiently

and effectively. We use the BIOTIC patent to calculate crop stress.

Programmed firmware such as LCD, SD CARD, USB, EEPROM (I2C) on the product

Programmed in C and C++

Programmed the MSP 430 for the Gen 2 Basestation and later ported code to PIC32

Developed a bootloader on the SD Card for future versions

Developed the interface for the LCD

Integrated previous boards to the new product through the SPI

Used Logic Analyzers and Oscilloscopes to debug and provide timing analysis

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, ULL

Lafayette, Louisiana. August 2007 – May 2009

Prepared lesson plans for each lab in order to teach basic circuit construction, logic gates, and

binary and hexadecimal conversion

Graded projects, homework, and tests

Occasionally taught the Freshman Intro to Electrical Engineering course when the professor was

away

Intern/Programmer, NSI Upstream (Netscada)

Broussard, Louisiana. May 2007- December 2008

Gained experience in PID’s and plotted it’s interpretation on OFC

Developed very good SCADA skills

Managed databases for El Paso, Devon, and Stone Energy

Created and modified Network Diagrams

Installed and ran Well Tests for a Devon Platform

Did Programmable Logic Controller programming for the Allen Bradley 500

Contract Engineer, Diamond Research and Development.

Lafayette, Louisiana. May 2005 to March 2007

Worked on MPU boards that consisted of an 80C51 Microcontroller embedded in a directional

driller to be operational in temperatures above 200 C

Designed a switch mode power supply (flyback converter) to be operational in 200 C

Designed PCB layouts and assembled circuit components onto PCBs

Programmed in Embedded C and C++

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